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Crowdfunding Joplin Mosque Project Blows Past Its Goals

By Katie Toth

…rprised: When they opened their mosque and community center in 2007, their sign was torched…That’s a lot of open cases in a town as small as Joplin.” ”I do not believe the arsonist acted alone, or in a vacuum,” Campbell says. “The perpetrator has bragged somewhere, in a bar, at work, at—yes!—church. And while Joplin residents would do well to hold a vigil and take up a collection to help their Muslim neighbors rebuild, the best thing would be to t…

On Maryland Marriage Equality, It’s Raven vs. Raven [UDPATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ns are partnering with Marylanders for Marriage Equality, and are actively promoting their support for Question 6. What’s striking about the Birk television ad, is how, even though Birk is Catholic, it doesn’t mention religion or religious freedom. Amongst marriage equality opponents, such as at a closed door meeting a few weeks ago in Baltimore, religious freedom is a rallying cry (even though the law contains ample protections for religious obje…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…d spiritual work at such a deep level that it was in his bones. A telltale sign: when Howard began his Judson work, 99% of working clergy had no real feeling for artists, and most were even slightly afraid of them as some kind of alien species. Howard not only loved all artists but he gravitated toward the edgiest and most experimental among them: the outlaws. I think he reveled in the avant garde because he himself was actually part of it: comple…

Preaching to the ‘Moveable Middle’: Bishop Gene Robinson on Marriage Equality and the Election

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…marriage to over 50 percent right after his announcement. I think that’s a sign that in the African-American community, particularly the religious community, they were doing their homework and they, too, were evolving on this issue. I think the president’s coming out about marriage equality gave them cover to go public. It’s not all of a sudden they changed, but it gave them the cover to say, “Me, too, actually.” What’s your opinion of the Republi…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…esus.” But when Heather and her husband moved away, and a new couple was assigned as pastors to our corps, I took it as an opportunity to step further away from church attendance. My kids are still in the process of sorting out their beliefs. A couple say they are atheists, a couple call themselves Christians—and sometimes they still go to church, which is how Chassé happened to be in attendance on Friday evening when the new pastors, Captains RC…

How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism

By Shaul Magid

…cular Jewish identity, diasporic in nature, focused on cohabitation with the “other” as the center and not margin of her “Jewishness.” Parting Ways is obviously not for those who are devout Zionists. It is for others who, for reasons similar to hers, cannot sign onto the “I Stand With Israel” Zionism and feel that Zionism has stolen their Jewishness through its hegemonious erasure of all other alternatives. Admittedly, historical alternatives are…

Looking at Libya, and at Ourselves

By Hussein Rashid

…arger population. As Haroon points out, these events were feared to be the sign of an Arab winter after the Arab Spring, and that the Arab world really was violently reactionary. Today’s events show us something else: rational actors, who died tried to protect the American who gave so much to them. There are numerous reports of Libyans dying protecting the compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed, taking him to a hospital, and having bo…

Tropical Storm Isaac Bears Down on RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…ida with Tampa and the Republican National Convention in its path. Is it a sign from God? That’s what the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank cheekily suggested yesterday, stringing together the bad forecast with Missouri Representative Todd Akins’s atrocious comments on “legitimate rape” and the public relations disaster of that sort of blasphemous Republican skinny-dip in the Sea of Galillee—yes, the place where Jesus walked on water. But there’s an…

Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…inst Iran’s nuclear facilities has the pundits wondering if this a further signal of Israel’s intention to bomb Iran, or yet another bluff in a campaign to get the West to further tighten sanctions on Tehran. The Israeli government, in this view, has no intention of attacking Iran and starting another Middle East war, but it is willing to go to the brink to get the U.S. to act—and to act before the November elections. The Rabbinic consultation st…

Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…mes’ Jim Hardley and Jason Horowitz report, some Catholics hope the change signals a future shift from recent appointments that disappointed many progressive Catholics, including the appointment of Salvatore J. Cordileone, an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, as archbishop of San Francisco and Leonard Blair, who played a major role in the Vatican investigation of American nuns, as the archbishop of Hartford. Pope Francis was named Person of…